Golf club



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D. SPITTAL GOLF CLUB Filed Aug. 17'-, 1927 DAVIUSPITTAL y f BY ATTPatented f v vLungau "UNYITEDfsTATl-:s PATENT OFFICE.

, DAvm srrm'AL, or GHAMBLY BASIN, QUEBEC, CANADA.

GOLF CLUB.,

- App'ncm'o'n meaAugust 17, 1927, serial' No. 213,663, and in canadaAugust 11, 1927.

My invention` relates particularly 'to golf clubs of the Wooden'typealthoughit maybe applied to the irons.4 The inventionhas lfor itsobjectto provide a club which Willcornbine the good qualities offbo-thlthe steel and' hickory shafts with attendant elimination of torsionWhile mantaining the spring of the wood shaft.' AA further object of myinventionis to reestablish the ancient clubmaking industry and I do thisby producing a golf elubhaving an all- Wood hickory shaft sheathed witha steel shaft vfrom the sole of the club-head to a point slightly lessthan half the length of the club. Both steel and wood shaft portions arerigidly anchored at the sole of the head and are united at the upper.end of the steel. In this manner the stoel portion of the shaft` whichhas hereto'- fore been hollow, is completely filled by the hickorv shaftportion, thus eliminating the vibration so common to steel shaft clubs,and therefore eliminating cracks and breakages in the head due to thevibration. A

More specifically stated the invention consists of'agolf clubconstructed With a steelI shaft portion secured rigidly to the-head ofthe club and, a. hickory. shaft of fullleugth and reduced in diameter tosnugly fit Wit-hin and extend through the steel shaft portion and thehead ofthe clubto the sole of the the :hickory and steelv shaft portionsin the -heald of the club at the sole thereof.

For full' comprehension, however, of my inventionl reference'must be hadtothe ac- 'companying drawings in which similar refj verenceeharactersindicate vthe same parts and wherein:

Figure 1- is asideelevation of a driver construeted according to myinvention.;

Figurej'2'-l is ai longitudinal lsec-tional View thereof; l I y Figure 3isa planview of the sole; c Figure "4 is'faftransverse sectional viewtaken on line Figure 2; and

Figure 5 isa plan View of the sole of the club. l, l' The head -b of myclub may be of any preferred construction. The steel shaft portion c isset into the head through the neck l of the head and rigidly secured inplace as by extending it through the head to the sole Where it isanchored as willy be presently described.

latter, with meansfor securing the ends of I prefer to make the steelshaft portion slightlydess than one-half the normal length of the club.The hickory shaft portion is of full length with the usual leather gripe. Its lower portion f is reduced in diameter substantially equal to theinterior diameterof lthe tubular steel shaft portion. This reducedportion of the hickory shaft is inserted through the steel shaft portionc and through .the neck d of the head to the sole g thereof.

A Wedge L locksthe hickory shaft-amd through it the steel shaft in thehead attire sole and aA copper rivet z' locks the hickory and steelshaft portions together, thus effec'- tively preventing torsion betweenthe head and wood and steel'shaft portions. Another copper rivet 7'locks the Wood and steel together at the head of the steel Shaftportion;

I have found that` a golf club constructed i according to my inventionis free oftorsion In a golf club the combination with a head; i

of a. full lengt-h hickory shaft' having a hanlle or grip :it its upperend and having its lower portion reduced in diameter forming a.surrounding shoulder and extending continuously to the solo of the head;a hollow lsteel shaft fitting tightly on the reduced portion of thehickory shaft, and being extended' through the head of the club to thesole thereof; means uniting the lower ends of the steel shaft andhickory shaft within it to the head of the club at the sole thereof andmeans uniting the upper end of the steel shaft to thehiekory shaft withthe upper end of the steel shaft in bearing relation With thesurrounding shoulder-on the hickory shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

DAVID SPITTAL.

